The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-05-26

f.: the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest Tele
graphic Reports on Subjects ..
Of interest.
The steamer Gaelic, from China, arriv-
ed last Saturday at San Francisco with
smallpox on board.
The Key West board of health have Of
fcially announced the appearance of &
case of yellow fever.
Samnel johnson, convicted of the mur.
der of John Sharpless, will be hanged at
Chester, Penn, August I'd.
In an alteration at Cleveland last week
William Higgins struck Harry Gorman a
blow with his fist which killed him in
stantly.s
Reports from the City of Mexico esti-
mate the number killed during the re-
cent earthquake shocks at least one hun
dred and fifty.
W. G. DePauw, of New Albany, Ind,
has bequeathed 100000 to his family
and $5,OOO,OOO to benevolent and educa-
tional educational institutions.
At a meeting of the workingmen's
party in Brussels, Belgium, last Sunday
large demonstration in favor of univer-
sal suffrage was resolved upon.
It is reported that James G. Blaine is
going to Europe, principally for his
health. A number of his political friends
and hackers are going with him.
Secretary Fairchild says he has not
issued any orders for the substitution of
paper currency for gold as medium of
exchange in the Pacific coast states.
A bank in the City of Mexico has been
robbed of 10000, including all the spare
CASH in the vault, which was
found wide open. No clues to the crime
have yet been discovered. -
Twenty nine of the crew of the Ameri-
can whaler Europea, wrecked off the
Japan coast have arrived at Nemurio; the
captain is not among them. The entire
crew numbered thirty-four.
Gen. Tchernayef advises Russia to
hold herself in readiness to take advan-
tage of any war between France and Ger
many to avenge herself on the latter for
the work of the Berlin congress.
De Bensande, husband of Violet Cam
eron, the actress, has obtained $1,95O
damages against the Manchester Umpire
for libel contained in an interview with
Lord Lonsdale published in that paper.
Madame Janauschek, the famous
actress, fell down flight of steps in New
port, Rhode Island, injuring herself so
severely as to necessitate the canceling of
her engagements for the rest of the sea-
son.
It is reported that the Mexican con-
servatives are making overtures to Don
Carlos, the Spanish pretender, with a
view of placing him at the head of their
party and eventually of the Mexican gov
ernment if possible.
President Grevy, of France, has asked
DeFreycinct to form new cabinet.
It is expected that sufficient pressure will
be brought through popular petitions and
tho press to cause the retention of Bou-
langer as minister of war.
President Cleveland and the members
of his cabinet have been invited by DEL
egation of St. Louis men to visit that city
during the Grand Army of the Republic
encampment in September. The presi-
dent has accepted the invitation.
The Saturday half holiday, lately legal
lied in New York, was generally COM
piled with last Saturday. In the after
noon there was a general cessation of
business, and the downtown streets had
a Sunday appearance. The exchanges,
courts, city and county Offices we're closed
promptly at noon.
Two Indians, The Dog and Big Rib,
have been tried at Fort Mcleod for horse
stealing, recently committed at Medicine
Hat. They have been sentenced to five
years Imprisonment in the Manitoba pen
itentiary, and will arrive at Winnipeg in
few days.
It was reported in New York last Fri
day that Vice President and General
Manager Oakes, of the Northern Pacific
railroad had resigned to accept the presi-
dency of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul, but the report has since been
generally denied.
The closing of furnaces in western
Pennsylvania on account of the coke
strike ia nrod11cine, alarm am0np the steel